CHS Science Dept. Chemistry
Chemistry Chapter 24 Section 4 Web-quest:
‘Applications and Effects of Nuclear Reactions’
I. Introduction—you will complete a web-quest about interesting and current nuclear chemistry topics. Everyone must visit and complete the three links to two core sites; you will then have time to visit other nuclear chemistry sites and then summarize two more topic of personal interest to you. The web-quest worksheet must be complete to receive credit for the class activity.
II. Core sites—
1. Nuclear Power Plant Tour:
· Southern California-Edison (http://www.songscommunity.com/virtual-tour.asp#.UmrzC54ZGSo).
2. Health Effect of Radiation Exposure:
· Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/health_effects.html
· Nuclear Regulator Commission http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/around-us/calculator.html
III. Optional sites—review the different nuclear chemistry sites below and select two to complete your web-quest worksheet.
3. The Particle Adventure: It is specifically recommended that you visit, ‘The Standard Model’ and, ‘Accelerators and Particle Detectors’ threads first (on left hand site of the home-site) http://www.particleadventure.org/.
4. The Large Hadron Collider: It is specifically recommended that you visit, ‘About the LHC’ and, ‘The Particle Detectives’ threads first (on left hand site of the home-site) (http://www.lhc.ac.uk/).
5. Nuclear medicine:
· Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (http://www.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=3106). Check out the videos at the bottom of the home-page, ‘What is Nuclear Medicine?’ and, ‘The Value of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’.
· Nuclear Energy Agency and medical radioisotopes (http://www.oecd-nea.org/med-radio/);
6. Nuclear power plant safety:
· Japan’s triple melt-down, the Fukushima nuclear power plants (http://www.globalresearch.ca/japans-triple-meltdown-tour-of-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-plant/5353516)
7. Fusion Research:
· ITER—the way to new energy (http://www.iter.org/).
· EFDA—Fusion (http://www.efda.org/fusion/why-should-society-invest-in-fusion-research/).
CHS Science Dept. Chemistry
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Chemistry Chapter 24 Section 4 Web-quest:
‘Applications and Effects of Nuclear Reactions’
Student Web-quest Worksheet
Core sites—complete the section on the web-quest worksheet for the two core sites.
1. Nuclear Power Plant Tour:
· Southern California-Edison –view the 11 video presentations about the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant and summarize what you learned in one complete sentence for each (11 sentences total).
2. Health Effect of Radiation Exposure:
· Environmental Protection Agency. There are three main bulleted sections on this web page (‘Radiation and health’; ‘Effects of radiation type and exposure pathway’; Estimating health effects). Review the answers to the questions below each section and summarize those answers in your own words in one paragraph (4-5 complete sentences per paragraph; three total paragraphs).
· Nuclear Regulator Commission. Complete the, ‘Personal Annual Radiation Dose Calculator’ and summarize the results.
Optional sites—review the different nuclear chemistry sites and select two to complete your web-quest worksheet. For each of the two sites you select, summarize what you learned in your own words (4-5 complete sentences in one paragraph).
1. Name of site one:
Personal summary in own words
2. Name of site two:
Personal summary in own words